Astonishing claims England goalkeeper Gordon Banks was secretly poisoned by the CIA in the 1970 World Cup have re-emerged. Banks fell ill just before England’s World Cup quarter final v West Germany in Mexico and missed the game. His absence was widely considered the reason why the Three Lions lost. Banks always blamed his upset stomach on a dodgy bottle of beer. Now a former BBC reporter has been investigating and believes the CIA - the US foreign intelligence agency - may have been